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RE: possible bug with find


Hi Timo,

no bug, user error: On every *ix you normally need quotation to prevent the
shell from file globbing (wildcard expansion) before involing programs, like

find GtkRadiant -iname '*.cpp' -print


Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de)

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Timothee Besset [SMTP:timo@qeradiant.com]
> Sent:	Tuesday, January 16, 2001 21:11
> To:	cygwin@cygwin.com
> Subject:	possible bug with find
> 
> ok, maybe I really suck at unix stuff, but I think I have a weird and
> buggy 
> behaviour with find:
> 
> on a linux box (standard and recent slackware installation) I'm using
> find:
> 
> tim@lunatic:/usr/local/root_home/tim$ find --version
> GNU find version 4.1
> 
> find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
> gets me all the .cpp files in my directories..
> 
> if I type that in cygwin (I upgraded to the latest network install today
> to 
> make sure)
> I get .. only 1 file out of the 104 it should find:
> 
> administrator@DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
> $ find GtkRadiant -iname *.cpp -print
> GtkRadiant/radiant/preferences.cpp
> 
> administrator@DOWTEST-SGL /cygdrive/e/Loki
> $ find -version
> GNU find version 4.1
> 
> I don't see anything special about this file compared to all the others ..
> 
> permissions are the same etc.
> 
> unless I really suck that much with shell scripts .. I think this is a bug
> 
> TTimo
> 
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